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...first time since the U.S. Department of Agriculture began buying corn to support its price (in 1933), farmers voted last week to abolish the acreage controls that went with the high, rigid props. In 26 commercial corn states 346,976 farmers voted 71.1% for a new program proposed by Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. Result: next year corn growers will give up a system that paid 75% to 90% of parity if they planted no more than a Government-set limit, turn to a system that sets the props closer to real market value (i.e., 90% of the previous three-year...
...while Johnny insisted that he had bought cobalt 60 for $18 from a "Canadian institution," spilled a solution of it on his hands. But with the notable exception of radium itself, most radioactive isotopes are under rigid control. They cannot be imported without an AEC permit. At length, Johnny spilled the truth...
...despite a 9.7% jump in revenues to a record $263.7 million. For the first nine months this year, the loss is $1,800,000, although other major lines are well in the black. More important, T.W.A. has borrowed so heavily from banks and insurance companies that it has rigid restrictions on all its spending...
...flexible new rules also scrap old regulations that tied architects' hands, kept architectural design from changing to meet new patterns of living. Builders no longer are bound by minimum-lot sizes and rigid house-placement rules, may vary developments as long as light, ventilation and outdoor-activity space are adequate. Once-banned inside kitchens are now allowed, saving the outer or window walls for living and sleeping space. So are new, low-cost bedsitting or kitchen-dining combinations. Also new: architects may choose from a wide variety of products as long as they meet careful performance tests...
Khrushchev knew that many West Germans-and not just the opposition Socialists-consider Adenauer's stand too rigid. Adenauer's government recently felt called upon to deny formally that any of its ministers had ever been willing to negotiate with the East Germans. To this, the East Germans coyly asked: What happened June 11, 1955 and Oct. 20, 1956? Adenauer's government had to admit last week that on those dates Adenauer's Finance Minister (now Justice Minister) Fritz Schaffer had indeed crossed over into East Berlin to talk with an East German minister...